Re: Slow memory support

Re: Slow memory support

[Pavel Machek]

> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > This is what I do. (I only put buffers there, for now). But, what
> > about you have 64Meg of normal and 64Meg of slow memory? I doubt
> > you'll find 64Meg worth of buffers and page tables.
> 
> Hmm, what about putting everything in slow memory, except
> for executable code...

And what to do with executable data? I think that data need to be in
fast mem, too.

> Or (with Ben's patch) we could move 'overly active' pages
> to fast memory and other pages to slow memory, with a max
> amount of pages we could move every second.

This would be nice. What is Ben's patch?
								Pavel

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Re: Slow memory support

[Benjamin LaHaise]

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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:

> This is what I do. (I only put buffers there, for now). But, what
> about you have 64Meg of normal and 64Meg of slow memory? I doubt
> you'll find 64Meg worth of buffers and page tables.

Hmm, what about putting everything in slow memory, except
for executable code...
Or (with Ben's patch) we could move 'overly active' pages
to fast memory and other pages to slow memory, with a max
amount of pages we could move every second.

Rik.
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